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sure as shooting
Idioms and Phrases
Most certainly, as in It's going to snow tonight, sure as shooting , or That grizzly is sure as shooting going to make dinner out of us . This idiom has replaced the older sure as a gun , dating from the mid-1600s, a time when guns fired with far less certainty. [Second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
But sure as shooting, this was the other person the Preacher said we were gonna have to go see.
"A figure in white, remember, fellows; and the one we saw to-night was dressed that way, as sure as shooting!" said Toby, convincingly.
Then the country wakes up, a large force concentrates at vast expense, and the day of retribution has come, when, sure as shooting, the Bureau has stepped in with restraining hand.
If we don’t, we never play well, that’s as sure as shooting.”
“You’re right, Frank, it’s that Lounger, as sure as shooting!” he cried.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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